footbinding缠足chinesefeetwomen Chinese Foot Binding By: Candace Hutchins Throughout history in all cultures a common ultimate goal is to achieve beauty. Just as all people look different, all people have a different outlook on the question, what is beautiful? For some time in the nineteenth cen...
Footbinding, cultural practice, existing in China from the 10th century until the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, that involved tightly bandaging the feet of women to alter their shape for aesthetic purposes. Footbinding usually b
they adopted many Chinese traditions—but not foot-binding. The far more politically influential and independent Mongol women were completely uninterested in permanently disabling their daughters to conform with Chinese standards of beauty. Thus, women's feet became an instant marker of ethnic identity,...
In describing the concept, organization, and reception of an exhibition on shoes for bound feet at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, this essay ponders the perils of telling stories about footbinding. The narratives perpetuated by missionaries and feminists are so successful in dramatizing the ...
Chinese shoes for bound feet, The Children's Museu... x-ray schema of normal and bound foot of Chinese w... X-ray of bound feet, China While there are several myths concerning the origin of the practice, two stand above the rest. The first comes from the court of the emperor Li Yu...
the sexes. It ensured a girl’s marriagability in patrilineal Chinese culture and was a shared bond between daughters, mothers, and grandmothers. Footbinding was also a prestige symbol, and the popular belief was that it increasedfertilitybecause the blood would flow up to the legs, hips, and...
An ugly woman with bound feet could pass for a beauty, and a good-looking woman with perfectly bound feet was the ideal of femininity (figure 18). Binding their feet, women turned their bodies into artifice, art, poetry, writing, culture. Through pain and mutilation, they became the codes...
The foot-binding remains in Chinese as a time honoured manner and custom that is to bind women's feet from childhood. But Chinese women have a dislike to have one's own feet seen by other persons. For this reason, the study of foot-binding is so poor, that there is hardly any litera...
The tiny feet of women who had their feet bound since childhood in China were deemed attractive, erotic, and a sure way to find a rich husband. Foot binding was painful, but practiced in old China.
From the phenomenon of women′s feet-binding with bandages in feudal society in China,this article analyzes the traditional ideology and views on aesthetics.It asserts that the appearance of this phenomenon is due to the decline of woman′s social status and spreading of thoughts of″male superio...